From: "Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)" <jose.fernandez@linux.dev>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Cressey <ben@cressey.dev>,
Florent Revest <florent.revest@linux.dev>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org,
"Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)" <jose.fernandez@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/7] compiler_types: Let notrace keep the function prefix NOPs
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:54:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261029-b4-arm64-callops-kcfi-v3-2-1b011ad5ddec@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261029-b4-arm64-callops-kcfi-v3-0-1b011ad5ddec@linux.dev>
Let notrace keep the prefix NOPs when the architecture defines
CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_PREFIX. kCFI callers check the type hash
at a fixed offset before the entry point, so a notrace function needs
the same prefix NOPs as any other. Record the entry in a section the
linker drops, so ftrace never sees it. Clang 21 takes a section name
as a third argument of the attribute. Nothing defines the macro yet,
so no functional change.
Reviewed-by: Ben Cressey <ben@cressey.dev>
Reviewed-by: Florent Revest (Anthropic) <florent.revest@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) <jose.fernandez@linux.dev>
---
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index c5921f139007..43dafaa06194 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -211,6 +211,15 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
#if defined(CC_USING_HOTPATCH)
#define notrace __attribute__((hotpatch(0, 0)))
+#elif defined(CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_PREFIX) && !defined(__BINDGEN__)
+/*
+ * Not for bindgen: its libclang may not support the section argument
+ * (Clang >= 21), and leaving the attribute out does not change the ABI.
+ */
+#define notrace \
+ __attribute__((patchable_function_entry(CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_PREFIX, \
+ CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_PREFIX, \
+ ".discard.patchable_function_entries")))
#elif defined(CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY)
#define notrace __attribute__((patchable_function_entry(0, 0)))
#else
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-29 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-29 16:53 [PATCH v3 0/7] arm64: ftrace: support CALL_OPS on kernels built with kCFI Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] scripts/sorttable: Make the arm64 before_func offset configurable Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-10-29 16:54 ` Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) [this message]
2026-10-29 16:55 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: ftrace: Make the CALL_OPS prefix layout configurable Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:56 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] arm64: cfi: Use CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS for the type hash offset Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:56 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] arm64: ftrace: Support CALL_OPS on kernels built with kCFI Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:57 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: ftrace: Use five prefix NOPs on ThinLTO kernels with BTI Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
2026-10-29 16:57 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] arm64: ftrace: Allow CALL_OPS on kCFI kernels built with Rust Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
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